Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Monday, July 30, 2012

Venezuelan cartoonist Rayma Suprani



Sampsonia Way presents the first installment of Chávez Time, a series of interviews with Venezuelan media professionals about working under Hugo Chávez’s government.


Saturday, July 28, 2012

RJ Matson laid off from The St. Louis Post Dispatch

From The Daily Cartoonist.


The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has announced it has laid off 23 staffers from their newsroom citing weak economic conditions. Riverfront Times reports Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson was among those let go.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has laid off 23 staffers from the newsroom, advertising and production, the company announced today.
The cuts continue the trend of downsizing at the newspaper, the largest in the Lee Enterprises chain, as the industry struggles to contend with declining print advertising revenue.
Lee earlier this month announced that it had narrowed its losses in the fiscal third quarter. The loss of $1.5 million, or three cents a share, compared with a loss of $155.5 million, or $3.46 a share, a year earlier.
Lee Enterprises, the paper’s parent company, also announced it gave CEO Mary Junck a stock bonus worth some $655,000.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Some Favourite "National Lampoon" Covers

Every time the Olympic Games come around I can't help but think of this hilarious National Lampoon cover.

National Lampoon, "Sports" issue, April 1976
(photo by Chris Callis)

While we're on the subject, here is a selection of some famous and personal favourite covers:

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Poster of the Week

From the Center for the Study of Political Graphics blog.


New Yorker cartoon in "Seinfeld" episode

From the Daily Cartoonist blog.

Remember the Seinfeld episode wherein Elaine complains about how non-understandable New Yorker cartoons are and she sets out to “crack the code” using the J Peterman catalog as an excuse to talk to The New Yorker editor “Elinoff”?

"Cartoon Contest" drawing by Mick Stevens